I would LOVE to get a cake that said "Jewie" on it. That would make me so happy.However, can I be annoying for a second? Lisps are technically only difficulty with sibilants (such as /s/ or "sh"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp/l/ turning into /w/ would be gliding of a liquid. There, the speech therapist part of me will go back inside, and I'll not be THAT annoying person again.

I was chuckling while reading this post.... until I got to the "Jewie, " and then I was laughing. Especially at the last one. My brothers, sister and I called our grandfather Pap-Pap. I tried picturing his face and calling him Poop-Poop and it made me laugh out loud. And those who are cube dwellers know others around you all want to know what's so funny!

This is the first time I have commented on this blog, I have been creeping and reading it for months now...I literally almost spit water all over my work computer when I read "Happy Birthday Poop-Poop"

Took me a minute on the monkey couple cake, because I was too distracted by those dice. Apparently, the decorator doesn't know that the opposite faces always add up to 7, so you'd never see the 1 and 6 both at the same time.

Also, nitpicking here, but the dice are wrong on the monkey cake. The 1 is always opposite the 6, and the 3 is opposite the 4. So dice can't look the way they're pictured on the cake -- the dots are on the wrong sides. :)

wv trizeu -- the wreckerator trizeu get dice right, but misses the mark.

If "Pop" is "Poop"...I'm imagining Dr. Seuss' book Hop on Poop, or drinking soda poop, "I'm gonna poop you in the nose!", hip-poop music, Michael Jackson: the King of Poop, eating the candy Poop Rocks or having Poop Tarts for breakfast....Maybe gramps should beat just that wreckerator too!

Hey! I'm talkin' to you too! I'm not the only one here! You can include me...that's 8 (at least I'm not number 2). :-D

There is actually a gas station called FasTrack in California and a whole chain of gas stations called Fastrac in New York. So maybe the Fast rack wreckator just added an extra break to make it even more wrecktastic because let's face it, the cake is an eye sore without the text even being considered.

I know some seniors who are quite comfortable with the idea of being old men and old women and don't like people to mince words about it, so maybe that's what's going on with the first cake. Still not sure I would be that blunt on a cake, though. Besides, what the "old woman" really wanted was the last cake, which is made with 100% bran flakes and prunes.

With the cake with dice on it, how do we know Mike and Joann AREN'T monkeys? I support equal marriage rights for all primates so, good luck Mike and Joann! I'm guessing it's going to be a Vegas wedding?

I hate Pop Pop, Paw Paw, Mee Maw, Maw Maw and any other Redneck sounding names. Of course, with the way people go through partners I guess they have to make up stuff to call all the "relatives". (Getting off my soapbox now).

The "monkey couple" is not only wrecked with words, but the dice aren't correct. The dots on a die should add up to 7 on opposite sides of said die. So the fact we can see the 6 and 1 on the first die and the 3 and 4 on the other die make them incorrect. Does this mean the couple is unlucky? Or lucky to have 2 dice that are incorrect making it a positive? Or something like that...

You guys have been smokin' hot with the commentary. I swear I read your blog as much for the wit as for the wrecks. No pressure or anything going forward. Well, maybe a little. No, none. Seriously. None.

I do know a family that has called their youngest child (#6) 'Poopypants' since birth and it appears to still be his name, at a much older age. (I'm waiting for the cake with that moniker - it fits the family)

Let's hope that first cake isn't for a surprise party. I can just imagine an 88 year old walking in and everyone jumping out and yelling "SURPRISE!" Yeah folks, guess what? The surprise is that this isn't a birthday cake anymore. It's funeral fodder.

Wreckerator: What? Monkey? Really? Okaaay, if that's what they want on it. But maybe I'll use my best script just because. Pretty dicey there. Is that right? Heck, who cares. It's Vegas, baby, everybody's dice is loaded. ok. Done. Now back to my real job of mopping the floor.

#2 Several states have 'Fastrack' -- a device that one puts in a car to allow use of 'express lanes'. Those are lanes that are largely unoccupied except when people are paying exorbitant fees to (not) move at the same speed as those in the 'free' lanes. (A love of irony is required to work as a traffic engineer, it seems.) Anyway, maybe the cake pertains to that. Not sure what a 'YP' is, though.

#3 Did we consider that the order might have been called in by Elmer Fudd?

#4 What's in the upper left? I can't hazard a guess. It's embedded in the frosting, so I hope it is food-safe.

#5 Something is wrong with the dice. Just had to get in on the EPCOT...

#6 A birthday celebration coincides with the completion of potty training. Oh joy. Won't that child cherish that picture in years to come.

wv: prevent (really). Only you can prevent wrecks like these. But whatever you do, don't.

My day isn't done without a peek at your fabulous site; being on the other side of the earth from yours, my day starts with the lovely treat of wrecks sandwiched between gems of wacky humour (or is it the other way round?) and topped with a lavish spread of comments.....ahhhh....truly smorgastartic!!! Love you!

To Anon @2:44I'm assuming you've never been around small chilren? Most of those names originate when kids are too little to pronounce grandma or grandpa so that's what they say instead and everybody thinks it's cute and it just sticks. And it's not just 'rednecks,' it's pretty much country-wide from what I've seen. We have a Jamma, a Jampa and a Nini in our family now. Have some fun with it! =)

Is there some kind of trend to have Oreos (or possibly non-brand sandwich cookies) stuck in frosting piles on cake nowadays? They're always so soggy by the time you get to eat them, you don't even need milk.

Oh Jen. This is my very favorite movie. Now I love you with so many more fibers of my being! And I will join the majority in sharing a particularly good line: "When did THAT happen?!" "I don't know!...somewhere between my vest and my pants."

I don't mean to be a stickler for detail - but on a standard six sided dice, the numbers on opposite sides always add up to 7. So it's not possible for the side with the 6 to be next to the side with the 1.

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